Worst Idea Ever (Part 2)

Posted on Mon Apr 3rd, 2017 @ 1:20am by Captain Rueben Gregnol & Dixoho Saa (*) & Alika Mahone
Edited on on Fri Apr 7th, 2017 @ 11:48pm

Mission: Mission 3 - Negligence
Location: Deck 2 - Briefing Room
Timeline: MD 01 20:00
758 words - 1.5 OF Standard Post Measure

Previously on “Worst Idea Ever (Part 1)” :

"We have been asked to go somewhere to acquire things that are a little more at our level." Starfleet didn't want to be seen to be going to Empok Nor to get parts to fix Deep Space Nine that they couldn't replace again after all the years spent trying to figure things out. It was hard to admit that they couldn't copy Cardassian technology still.

"Out with it, Cap." Alika frowned, in her best attempt at 'supportive and encouraging' as she could have been, considering her abrupt glares and silent judgments prior to this moment. "We can't do anything if we don't know where we're going."

"We are going to Empok Nor..." Rueben started looking at everyone.

And now, the conclusion:

"The sister station of Deep Space Nine?" Dixoho spoke up finally from the silence she had been keeping in the corner going over current star charts, nothing had interested her until that point.

Looking between the gathered staff, Alika spoke up on what she thought was a fairly glaring issue. "Why?"

"This is the worst idea I've ever heard," Olsam declared as the room got noisy again.

As the room quietened down the Captain lent back in his chair and looked at them all individually as they all demanded to know why. He could see that some of them were barely hiding there anger while others were clearly just confused by the location they were going to.

"We are being paid to get some equipment for a buyer that doesn't want to go there themselves." He said simply thinking back to Barton and what he was always said about a lie - keep it simple.

It was a new thing for him, working with a group that he had not trained with since boyhood. Where actions could be telegraphed by slight movements and gestures. Argument and discussion were new as well ... and interesting. Sanuye thought of the lake where they tribe camped in warmer months when he was a boy and how the lake could appear still, completely without movement. Their teacher had them diving for river stones one day and they discovered whirlpools and eddies and currents that one could not know existed. What appeared to be one way was in fact very different, it was a matter of shifting perspective. It was a lesson he had never forgotten and he wondered privately if maybe it could be so here as well.

Perhaps in an attempt to 'support' the Captain, Alika crossed her arms over her chest, shaking her head disapprovingly. She had seen enough 'higher ups' attempting to pass off small bits of information before. If she wasn't going to buy it, it was likely someone else wasn't going to either.

Rueben glanced at Alika and pointedly glared at her in a way that spoke that they were going to discuss this after the meeting. Perhaps he had been wrong in not talking to her about going to Empok Nor before announcing it to the Crew but it wasn't what he wanted to do in the slightest, he had been hoping for a supply run or even his science crew being hired for something dodgy as he had heard that one was needed on the galactic grapevine but no Starfleet had caught up with them.

"We will also be able to salvage parts and things for ourselves... Medical equipment left behind maybe. " He added trying to appease the less onside crew members. Mentioning medical equipment was always a good bribe.

"This is the best idea I've ever heard," Olsam declared, reforming his previous opinion spoken only moments before.

With the disdain of a Ferengi who felt as if they'd been jipped out of a bar of latinum, Alika cast her look aside with a resigned, "I suppose whatever we can't use we can sell."

"That's the spirit!" Dixoho said with a small smile as Rueben nodded his agreement glad that his executive officer was finally agreeing. They all needed to get into the spirit of civilian life and the way they did things now even if they had a puppet master.

OFF:

Captain Rueben Gregnol
Commanding Officer
SS Mary Rose

Olsam Mott, M.D.
Ship's Doctor
SS Mary Rose

Alika Mahone
Second Officer
SS Mary Rose

Sanuye
Chief of Security
SS Mary Rose

Bradon Gordon
Chief Engineer
SS Mary Rose

Dixaho Saa
Chief Navigator
SS Mary Rose
(PNPC Gregnol)